Maxims, Adages & Quotes
A little lightness
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Good
Fast
Cheap
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Pick any two. |
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You only find oil if you drill wells.
John Masters (oil wildcatter)
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The wizard is the one who puts the problem on the table.
-Mary Williams, management consultant
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| For every problem there is solution that is simple, obvious—and wrong. |
| Some problems ain’t got no solutions. |
There is no problem a good miracle can’t solve.
-Shick
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| Do it. |
A year from now you may wish you had started today.
-Karen Lamb
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| The effort required to correct course increases geometrically with time. |
| An example is not a proof. |
| An analogy is most informative at that point at which it breaks down. |
| To a child with a hammer, everything is a nail (Law of the instrument). |
| A boomerang that won't come back is a stick, no matter how many times you throw it. |
There must be an ideal world, a sort of mathematician’s paradise where everything happens as it does in textbooks.
-Bertrand Russell
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The next best thing to knowing something is knowing where to find it.
-Samuel Johnson
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The nice thing about standards is that there are so many of them to
choose from.
-Andrew S. Tanenbaum
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| On hearing a new idea an academic said to me, "I was about to think of that!" |
